{"id":1626,"date":"2011-05-02T08:58:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2011-05-02T08:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T08:58:44","slug":"sa-advance-despite-malawi-setback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/02\/sa-advance-despite-malawi-setback\/","title":{"rendered":"SA advance despite Malawi setback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/malawisoccer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1629\" title=\"malawisoccer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/malawisoccer-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The South African National Under 23 side advanced to the last round of  the All Africa Games qualifiers despite a 2-1\u00a0setback to Malawi at the\u00a0  Civo Stadium\u00a0in Lilongwe on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Amagluglug&#8217;s solitary\u00a0goal in this second leg clash was scored by Riaan  Eugene of Santos of Cape Town, but Shakes Mashaba\u2019s men go through on a  5-3 aggregate victory. The visitors won the first leg by four goals to  one (4-1) played at the Moruleng Stadium in the North West province two  weeks ago .<\/p>\n<p>In Lilongwe, the home side scored first with the visitors equalising a  short while later, but Malawi grabbed the winning goal in referee\u2019s  optional time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a good game, but we lost through soft goals. Malawi had a  completely different team to the one we faced two weeks ago, having  called up most of their foreign-based players. Despite that, we should  have scored in the early stages of the match. We can\u2019t be happy with a  loss but we are comfortable we won on aggregate and this is a good  lesson for our boys that when we play at home let\u2019s dominate and score  as many goals as possible so that when we play away we are still safe.  Our opponents showed how to do it because they really wanted to win this  match, but my players stood firm, so well done to them,\u201d said head  coach Shakes Mashaba.<\/p>\n<p>In the next and final round, first leg to be played on the weekend of 24  \u2013 26 June 2011, the South Africans will face the winner between  Botswana and Zimbabwe who are playing on Sunday, 1 May 2011. The winner  between South Africa and Botswana\/Zimbabwe qualifies for the All Africa  Games to be hosted by Mozambique from 3 \u2013 18 September 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The South African Under 23 squad\u2019s next assignment is a 2012 London  Olympic Games qualifier against Benin away. The first leg is scheduled  for the weekend of 3 \u2013 5 June 2011, with the return fixture two weeks  later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African National Under 23 side advanced to the last round of the All Africa Games qualifiers despite a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[378,379,380,381],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-football","tag-south-africa","tag-sports","tag-under-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}